Pree v. District of Columbia Board of Elections & Ethics

The District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics (the Board) sustained challenges to nominating petitions filed on behalf of petitioners, prospective mayoral candidates for the primary election in September, 1994. Relying upon this court’s decision in Orange v. District of Columbia Bd. of Elections & Ethics, 629 A.2d 575 (D.C.1993), the Board determined that both nominating petitions failed to contain the required number of signatures of persons with accompanying addresses that match addresses for those persons on the Board’s voter registration roll. See D.C.Code § l-1312(o)(3) (1992).…